8:00pm on Friday and Saturday, May 15-16, 2009
Broadway Performance Hall | 1625 Broadway, Seattle, WA (map)
CD Forum Session! A post performance Q&A free to ticket-holders May 15th & 16th.
Dance Split Bill featuring solo work by Camille A. Brown and the US Premiere of Makeda Thomas’ new solo work FreshWater, co-commissioned by the CD Forum.
Camille A. Brown choreography is a “tour de force” and “reveals an arresting individuality as both choreographer and performer.” Ms. Brown has received commissions from Hubbard Street II, Urban Bush Women, Ailey II, among others. Her work has also been performed at Central Park’s Summerstage, Dance Theater Workshop, Symphony Space, Dancenow Festival, New York Fall for Dance Festival, and This Woman’s Work at Aaron Davis Hall (which resulted in her being noted in Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” article). Ms. Brown is currently a guest with Renni Harris/Puremovement. She is also a dancer in the premiere of Peaches, Plums, and Pomegranates, a new work by celebrated choreographer Dianne McIntyre and legendary jazz artist Olu Dara. Most recently, she was a member of Ronald K. Brown/Evidence (2001-2007). She is also a featured dancer in BET Jazz’ documentary on Blueprint of A Lady – a collaboration with Brown and Grammy nominated Jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon.
Makeda Thomas choreographs works that cross boundaries between contemporary modern and traditional dance. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Ms. Thomas is an MFA Fellow at Hollins/ADF. From 1999-2007, she danced with Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, Urban Bush Women and Rennie Harris/Puremovement. In 2003, she founded Roots & Wings Movement! which has performed extensively throughout Africa, the Caribbean and United States. She is also currently engaged as Artistic Advisor to Projecto Cuvilas, and Resident Choreographer of Companhia Nacional de Canto e Dança of Moçambique. ‘Fresh Water’ takes its title from the Trinidadian term for someone who talks, dresses or acts American without having gone overseas (crossing salt water). The term also serves to remind someone who may have indeed gone overseas that they are still Caribbean. ‘Fresh Water’ is being created in the midst of returning home to Trinidad after 20 years living abroad. It is, therefore, a deeply personal work – set in the stage of a mystical, multilayered culture of compelling depth of breadth and scope. Fresh Water is a dance between Memory and Reality. It is a work about family, legacy and continuity; tradition and heritage; about the fragility of life and the fragility of culture.
